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Re: The energy crisis
https://news.sky.com/story/cost-of-l...orest-12712013
Quote:
Cost of living: Shell boss calls on government to tax oil and gas companies to protect poorest
The chief executive of Shell has called on the government to tax oil and gas companies in order to protect the poorest people in society from soaring energy costs.
Speaking at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London, Ben van Beurden said: "One way or another there needs to be government intervention that somehow results in protecting the poorest.
"That probably may then mean that governments need to tax people in this room to pay for it."
His comment was in reference to companies rather than individuals, a Shell spokesperson later said.
High prices and market volatility is damaging to society, Mr van Beurden said.
"You cannot have a market that behaves in such a way... that is going to damage a significant part of society," he told those in attendance.
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